Monday, 30 September 2013
Sunday, 29 September 2013
Air India cheap rate flights :)
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Air India cheap rate flights :) This video is just for fun and laugh. share with your friends.
Saturday, 28 September 2013
Boat full of invaders sinks on the way to Australia
Boat full of invaders sinks on the way to Australia. Around 100 were on board. 55 killed including 20 babies. Many of the asylum seekers were from Pakistan, Iraq, Lebanon.
Kingdom makes world’s largest cake for Saudi National Day
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Kingdom makes world’s largest cake for Saudi National Day. Saudi Arabia celebrated its 83rd national day this year.
Friday, 27 September 2013
Nepali ambassador were recalled from Qatar
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Nepali ambassador were recalled from Qatar. Maya Kumari Sharma we called beck to Kathmandu after she declare Golf countries as a prison for overseas.
Thursday, 26 September 2013
A powerful country is involved in the killing of Gen Sana Ullah
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A powerful country is involved in the killing of Gen Sanau Allah. The enemy was tracing the General through satellite continuously and passed the information to their agents.
Culture of our education academies
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Is Culture of our education academies ? This could be a big reason that many of our parents do not send their daughters to co-education organizations and that make spoil the future of our daughters and sisters.
Concern over the lack of facilities managers work
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Concern over the lack of facilities managers work. Qatar 2022 World Cup organizers say foreign workers in Qatar treated worse than slaves with them on the investigation report in connection 'severe shock' is.
Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Even more difficult to settle in to UK
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Even more difficult to settle in to UK. The GOVT strict policies making its difficult for overseas to reside and settle in Great Britten. According to the interior minister of UK only those people will be encourage who will be able to an active and positive role in the the UK society.
American converted F-16 to drones
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American converted F16 to drones .. The American booing company has claimed that there F-16 drone had a successful test last week. Report BBC
Prophet Muhammad's (PBHU) promise to christians
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A Picture of Prophet Muhammad's Letter to St. Catherine's Monastery |
This article was published in the Pittsburg Post-Gazette [03.25.2007], Daily News Egypt [03.09.2007], AltMuslim [03.03.2007], Pakistan Link, Middle East Window, Turkish Daily News [04.10.2007 ], OpEd news [03.19.2007], Ikhwanweb [02.11.07], and many other places..
Muslims and Christians together constitute over fifty percent of the world and if they lived in peace, we will be half way to world peace. One small step that we can take towards fostering Muslim-Christian harmony is to tell and retell positive stories and abstain from mutual demonization. In this article I propose to remind both Muslims and Christians about a promise that Prophet Muhammed () made to Christians. The knowledge of this promise can have enormous impact on Muslim conduct towards Christians. Muslims generally respect the precedent of their Prophet and try to practice it in their lives.
In 628 AD, a delegation from St. Catherine’s Monastery came to Prophet Muhammed and requested his protection. He responded by granting them a charter of rights, which I reproduce below in its entirety. St. Catherine’s Monastery is located at the foot of Mt. Sinai and is the world’s oldest monastery. It possess a huge collection of Christian manuscripts, second only to the Vatican, and is a world heritage site. It also boasts the oldest collection of Christian icons. It is a treasure house of Christian history that has remained safe for 1400 years under Muslim protection.
The Promise to St. Catherine:
"This is a message from Muhammad ibn Abdullah, as a covenant to those who adopt Christianity, near and far, we are with them.
Verily I, the servants, the helpers, and my followers defend them, because Christians are my citizens; and by Allah! I hold out against anything that displeases them.
No compulsion is to be on them. Neither are their judges to be removed from their jobs nor their monks from their monasteries. No one is to destroy a house of their religion, to damage it, or to carry anything from it to the Muslims' houses.
Should anyone take any of these, he would spoil God's covenant and disobey His Prophet. Verily, they are my allies and have my secure charter against all that they hate.
No one is to force them to travel or to oblige them to fight. The Muslims are to fight for them. If a female Christian is married to a Muslim, it is not to take place without her approval. She is not to be prevented from visiting her church to pray. Their churches are to be respected. They are neither to be prevented from repairing them nor the sacredness of their covenants.
No one of the nation (Muslims) is to disobey the covenant till the Last Day (end of the world)."
The first and the final sentence of the charter are critical. They make the promise eternal and universal. Muhammed asserts that Muslims are with Christians near and far straight away rejecting any future attempts to limit the promise to St. Catherine alone. By ordering Muslims to obey it until the Day of Judgment the charter again undermines any future attempts to revoke the privileges. These rights are inalienable. Muhammed declared Christians, all of them, as his allies and he equated ill treatment of Christians with violating God’s covenant.
A remarkable aspect of the charter is that it imposes no conditions on Christians for enjoying its privileges. It is enough that they are Christians. They are not required to alter their beliefs, they do not have to make any payments and they do not have any obligations. This is a charter of rights without any duties!
The document is not a modern human rights treaty but even thought it was penned in 628 A.D. it clearly protects the right to property, freedom of religion, freedom of work, and security of the person.
I know most readers, must be thinking so what? Well the answer is simple. Those who seek to foster discord among Muslims and Christians focus on issues that divide and emphasize areas of conflict. But when resources such as Muhammad’s promise to Christians is invoked and highlighted it builds bridges. It inspires Muslims to rise above communal intolerance and engenders good will in Christians who might be nursing fear of Islam or Muslims.
When I look at Islamic sources, I find in them unprecedented examples of religious tolerance and inclusiveness. They make me want to become a better person. I think the capacity to seek good and do good inheres in all of us. When we subdue this predisposition towards the good, we deny our fundamental humanity. In this holiday season, I hope all of us can find time to look for something positive and worthy of appreciation in the values, cultures and histories of other peoples.
Tuesday, 24 September 2013
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